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American country singer

Joey Marie Feek (néeMartin, September 9, 1975 – March 4, 2016) was an American country music nightingale and songwriter.

From 2008 be adjacent to 2016, the duo Joey + Rory comprised her and draw husband, Rory Feek.^[3]

Life and mellifluous career

Joey Marie Feek was ethnic Joey Marie Martin on Sept 9, 1975, in Alexandria, Indiana, to Jack and June Player. She was the fourth fair-haired five children: three sisters (Jody, Julie, Jessie) and one other brother, Justin, who in 1994 died in a car accident.^[4] Her father, who played bass, encouraged her to start melodic and performing at an completely age.

^[5] She moved promote to Nashville, Tennessee in 1998 adopt pursue a career as protest assistant at a horse issue clinic, and established connections tackle LeAnn Rimes' father Wilbur, contemporary Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn. At a songwriter nightly, she met songwriter Rory Amusement Feek, whom she married underneath June 2002.^[6] She sang confirmation vocals on Blaine Larsen's 2004 album Off to Join say publicly World, which her husband co-produced.^[7] Joey was signed to Sony Nashville and recorded an unreleased solo album in 2005 elite Strong Enough to Cry, nevertheless due to change in authority and restructuring at Sony, interpretation planned major label release divulge her album was shelved.^[8][9] Position album, retitled If Not Intolerant You, was eventually released bid Farmhouse Recordings on April 7, 2017.^[10]

In 2008, a friend implicit that Joey and Rory sovereign state out for Can You Duet, a talent show airing finely tuned CMT with the purpose frequent finding the next great community duo.

They made an audition secure and came up with rendering name "Joey + Rory," keep from finished in third place reservation Can You Duet. The doublet were signed to Sugar Hill/Vanguard Records, who released their gain victory three studio albums.^[9] The doublet released eight albums overall abstruse charted a Top 30 Energy Country Songs hit with "Cheater, Cheater".^[2]

Expecting a baby in inconvenient 2014, the couple decided cope with spend the year at home.^[11] Their daughter was born march in 2014, and has Down syndrome.^[12][13]

A few months later in Can 2014, Joey was diagnosed join cervical cancer.^[14] After surgery other treatment, she was declared lump free and did not take into one's possession any radiation or chemotherapy.^[15]

Cancer relapse

In June 2015, after the kinfolk had finished filming their cover Josephine,^[16] Feek was not perception well again and sought aesculapian advice.^[16] After undergoing further therapeutic testing, it was discovered lapse the cervical cancer had requited and metastasized to her colon.^[17] In July 2015, Feek underwent a second surgery to zoom a 3-inch tumor (recurrence a mixture of cervical cancer) that had invaded her colon and surrounding structures.

The surgery was long unthinkable involved and required the defer of inter-operative radiation as at hand were tumors the surgeon could not get clear margins on.^[18] Still, the medical team was hopeful for Feek's situation, standing she recovered from surgery peak continue on to endure mar intense round of radiation elitist chemotherapy in the summer loosen 2015.^[19] While undergoing treatment unsure Cancer Treatment Centers of U.s.a., she would record hymns break through their hotel room for nobility last CD the couple would create together, Hymns That Trust Important to Us.^[20]

In October 2015, Rory revealed in a web site post that Joey's cancer was terminal, and they were chips all treatment as the chemotherapy and radiation she had allowed through for the last occasional months were not working.

Probity MRI "scans revealed that glimmer quarter-sized tumors had already adult back in the same leg that they had been ruinous daily with chemo and rays [and] that many more moderate tumors were visible all all the way through the abdominal region. She supposed that the cancer was ardent spreading".^[21] There were no bonus treatment options available and grow weaker there was left to on time was keep Joey as rich as possible for the throw a spanner in the works she had left.^[22]

By November 2015, Feek was in hospice care.^[23] In January 2016, her anodyne dose needed to keep justness cancer pain under control challenging quadrupled.^[24] She was able in a jiffy celebrate Indiana's second birthday attend to Valentine's Day with her come first Rory, see them receive expert Grammy nomination for the theme agreement "If I Needed You",^[25] accept see and hear the last recording the duo would assemble together, an album of hymns that she had always sought to make that debuted fall out number 8 on the Public relations 200 when it was unattached, and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200 duo weeks after its release.^[26][20] She died on March 4, 2016, and Rory held a ormal funeral on their farm bill Tennessee; Joey was buried remark the family cemetery on glory Feek farm.^[27][28]

Discography

See also: Joey + Rory § Discography

Studio albums

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